The Brown-Hudson Folklore Award
The Brown-Hudson Folklore Award was established in 1970 to honor two distinguished folklorists and officers of the North Carolina Folklore Society, Frank C. Brown of Duke University and Arthur Palmer Hudson of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Blue Ridge Folklife Festival
Here is information about the festival and how to get there.

National Endowment of the Arts
More about the national organization and what projects they fund today.